Our organization’s maintenance window is typically on the 3rd Thursday on the month which gives us a week to test patches after Microsoft releases them on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. But this month, my team and I notice that our patch policies was being deployed a week earlier than our anticipated maintenance window. After some investigating, I noticed that this month (Sept 2021) has 5 Thursdays in the month which offset our reoccurring schedule in our Patch Policies. It resulted with my team having to go back into each of their patch policies and adjusting their schedule to patch on the 4th Thursday of the month to accommodate this offset. Then next month they’re have to go back in and revert the schedule back to the 3rd Thursday to meet our maintenance window. Looking at the calendar year for 2021 and 2022, there’s 4 month our of the year where this offset repeats. In the spirit of automation and setting and forgetting, this is a limitation to Patch Policy scheduling.
Is there currently a feature in the WebUI to accommodate for these odd months?
If not, can BigFix implement a more flexible scheduling option for Patch Policy in the WebUI?
I’ve worked with SAP BOE where you can create objects called Scheduling Calendars and set specific dates for the entire year and next to run a report. You can create and save multiple of these Scheduling Calendars and have your reports reference them as their schedule to run. Is it possible to develop something similar to this?
Example from SAP BOE Scheduling Calendar wizard:
